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Trude Dothan

Trude Dothan was an Israeli archaeologist and professor at the Hebrew University who studied Philistine culture and won the Israel Prize in 1998.

1922 to 2016Research on Philistine cultureExcavations at Tel Miqne (Ekron)Excavations at Deir al-Balah

Born: 12 October 1922, Vienna
Died: 28 January 2016, Jerusalem
Occupation: university teacher, biblical archaeologist, archaeologist
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Gymnasia Rehavia

Trude Dothan was born in 1922 in Vienna

Trude Krakauer was born in Vienna in 1922. Her mother, Grete Wolf Krakauer, was a painter, and her father, Leopold Krakauer, was an architect and artist. As a child she moved with her family to Jerusalem.

She attended the Rehavia Gymnasium and then studied archaeology at the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus. She served in the IDF during the War of Independence and finished her M.A. in 1950 on the pottery of Tel Beit Yerah. She later studied in Chicago and London, where she met Kathleen Kenyon, and received her doctorate in 1961 under Benjamin Mazar.

She joined the Archaeological Institute of the Hebrew University in 1962 and worked there until 1992. She became full professor in 1974 and held chairs in Philistine archaeology. She excavated at Hazor, Ein Gedi, Cyprus, Deir al-Balah and Tel Miqne (Ekron).

In 1951 she married archaeologist Moshe Dothan, and they had two children, Dan and Uri. She died in 2016.